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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
She Knew She was Right.
BY VERMONT WOMAN, NUMBER ONE, WHO is
NOT DISMAYED.

Mr.. Editor Il did not expect to stir
up such hornets nest by my paper
on farm life, as l seem TO have done; but
am glad of it, for we have found out
that farmers wives can write-and
farmers, too, if some one will stir them
up. l am sorry my ideas were so mis-
construed. have looked over my paper
carefully and now l cannot see why
any one should have supposed l advo-
Gated return to anything so entirely
impracticable as the ways of fifty years
ago. / only undertook to show how
small things were turned to account.
l neglected to mark the quotation of the
Boston Journal correspondent as a
quotation, for it was she, and not l, who
accused farmers of living on " salt pork
and saleratus bread" 1t only goes to
prove that " half the world do not know
how the other half live" l.. b. b."
says the children of fifty years ago
had practically no childhood" 1t is
true they were not petted and INDUCED
as they are now, and learned to work
at an early age; but were they not the
better fitted by it for the busy and in
dustrious life most of them led, and
was not the robust health they had due
largely to an active self-denying life?
The days of spinning and weaving were
mostly over before l remember much
about it, but l often heard my mother
tell how proud she was of learning to
spin, and how much she enjoyed it. A
neighbours daughter of her own age
had her spinning-wheel taken over to
grandfather's sometimes, and the two
used to spin together in the great, open,
breezy garnet. When they had done
their stint of so many knots, which
they could finish by two O'Clock, they
had the rest of the day to themselves.
have no doubt it was much better for
them physically than it is for our
children to be brought up on the
piano stool and at the blackboard,
and no harder. / know my mother
went to school until fourteen years of
age. l have sampler, a beautiful
piece of work, dated at that age, and it
was done at school. All they were
taught was practical, and the three RS
were well rubbed IN at any rate. She
further says: "There might be profit in
making pickles and apple-sauce to sell
if one had the material to make them
Of" That is exactly the point the
Boston Journal woman took up. Why
don't farmers have more material for
home comfort and to meet more of the
outgoes. As well call it pickles and
apple-sauce as anything else. 81 call
it what they call it," said little Miss
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
A Learned Wife.

She knows every modern ism, and as from human
prison each theosophy and philosophy is re-
hected from her mind;
Knows the standing scope and status of the Be
cause Rants and Patos, in philology and psy-
choogy she wades in and goes 1t blind
She will talk you to paralysis with her chemical
analysis" with trichotomy" and "phile-
botomy " on her victims she will bounce
She will kill you, II you're killable, with her sound
ing, thirteen syllable, ancient, aline, sesqui-
pedaan words no fellow can pronounce.
But her husband helpless sinner, eats his bread.and
water dinner, luckless fellow in the cellar
through his lone dyspeptic days;
For his lovely wife bewitching piles the tables in
the kitchen with the lexicons of old Mexicans
and with cy.clo-pe-di-as.
And without curse stammer through large piles
of sanscrit grammar with agility and ability
picks his way round like a cat,
And the big hole In his trowsis " no sweet wfely
aid arouses, with compacency and patience
he conceals 1t with his hat. -ldnkee BLADE.
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Good Rules for Winter,


Never lean the back upon anything
that is cold Never begin a Journey
until the breakfast has been eaten.
Never take warm drinks and then i'm
mediately go out into the cold. Keep
the back, especially between the Shout
der-blades, well covered; also the
chest well protected. In sleeping in a
cold room establish the habit of breath
ing through the nose and never with
the mouth open. Never go to bed with
cold or damp feet. Never omit regular
bathing, for unless the skin is in active
condition the cold will close the pores
and favor congestion or other diseases.
After exercise of any kind never ride
in an open carriage or near the window
of a car for moment; it is dangerous
to health or even life. -IHe Sdnitdrion
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
FlOwers-..A Beautiful Subject
Lovingly Treated.

Mr.. Editorials 1 am invited to
"lead off" on the subject of flowers,
l will do so with pleasure. They are
my daily delight and am never weary
of talking about them or of admiring
them in their marvellous beauty. Why
should we sigh for costly adornments
when we can have the hyacinth, the
rose, the heiotrope and many others to
adorn our homes and our persons.
Nothing in art can compare with the
simple grace, delicate tints and per-
feet harmony of flowers the poorest
can cultivate. To me there is some
thing sacred about flowers. They come
like messengers from heaven to cheer
us with their silent language and sweet
perfume. "The flowers of the field
teach us most affectingly the frailty of
our mortal state; everything that
blooms in the whole kingdom of nature
lives only to die. The fairest are the
frailest, and the most beautiful die first.
The glow of life carnationed upon the
blushing leaf of the rose fades while
you speak of its beauty, and the same
hue upon the face of the sleeping child
is as certain, if not as soon, to fade"
can count more than fifty plants in
my rooms to-day, many of them in
bloom. How dreary the home would
be without them while the earth is
covered with her snowy mantle and the
wintry winds are signing among the
leafless branches.
hope some one will tell "Mrs. A.
G. W." how to treat her cyclamen.
have several and want to learn all can
about them. A friend sent me two
gloxinias-a pink-and-white one and a
purple one. The former has died and
the latter looks very frail. l planted
them in soil composed of one part sand i,
one part of well-rotted stable ma
nure and one part of garden soil. 1t
is my first experience with gloxinias
and the soil may not be well adapted to
them. Will some one please tell me?
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A New Story About Lincoln.

At dinner party the other evening
| heard a story of President Lincoln
which was new to me. 1t was told
by Rev. DR.. Nourse of this city who
said that the president was very much
annoyed by the persistence of a GER
tain member of congress named Jerry
Smith, who haunted him continually
wherever he went with applications for
office on behalf of his constituents.
One day a delegation of clergymen
called upon Mr.. Lincoln to pay their
respects, and one of them asked him
if he ever sought counsel and guidance
from the Lord during that time of his
great responsibility and anxiety.
Yes" replied Mr.. Lincoln, - pray
every night before | retire. | think of
the hundreds of thousands of soldiers
camped in the South, the boys in blue
as well as the boys in gray, and | pray
that one may be supported in their eff
forts to perserve the Union and the other
shown the error of their unholy strife.
l think of the thousands of deserted
homes in the North, of the thousands
of weeping women and fatherless chill
dren, and l pray God to give them
strength to bear their bereavements
and the wisdom to see that their hus-
bands, sons and fathers have died
fighting for the right. | think of my
responsibility and pray for strength
and wisdom. Then l look under the
bed and finding that Jerry Smith is
not there with an application for office,
| thank the Lord for it, turn out the
light, lock the door, Jump in between
the sheets and go to sleep instantly. p
ETchdnde,
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What Vermont Woman, No. 3,
Knows of Farming.
by A. C. W.

Mr.. Editor:-I am glad to see that so
able writer as I" l.. b. B." Oaura
Brigham Boyce, have l guessed right?)
has taken up her pen in defense of the
farmers families of to-day. agree
with her in all that she says. OF course
it would not pay for girl who could
earn tone dollar day teaching school
or three dollars a week doing house
work " to knit stockings or mittens for
sale. But there are a great many
women who cannot leave their homes
to engage in such occupations who can
and do knit stockings and mittens for
sale, dry apples, pick berries and do
other things to get money and other
necessary things, comforts, luxuries,
etc. For it is true, as a Young
Farmer" says, SC every increased bless
ing demands increased exertion." l
know young woman whose husband
bought two sheep in the spring, paying
therefor eleven dollars, if my memory
serves me right. She learned to spin,
and from their wool the first year knit
stockings enough, counting what was
used in the family, to pay for the sheep.
l know another woman who knits
stockings and mittens for sale, and
also takes in wool to spin on shares.
l know another woman who also
knits mittens for sale, picks berries,
makes hay and does so many other
things that it would astonish you if |
should tell them all. She told me
that she had sold twenty-five dollars
worth of stuff from the garden,
mostly strawberries, and with the help
of her children, the oldest only twelve
years old, picked raspberries enough to
come to sixteen dollars. Perhaps " L.
B. b." will think that the children have
to work as hard as the little girls who
used to 4" walk on plank to spin"
They do work, each one does her share,
but they attend school during the fall
and summer, have an organ at home
and, yes, Mr.. Editor, l think they bid
fair to excel the ability of their par
ents. But right here comes in that
quotation of the young farmer, " Every
increased blessing demands increased
eXertion." AS l could not earn my
salt, to say nothing of my board, knit
ting, l have to do some other way, so l
raise strawberries and dry apples-not
cider apples. We do not raise them,
but nice good apples that sell readily
for fifteen cents pound. have sold
eighty-live pounds besides putting up
enough for our own use, for we do not
believe in selling all and going without
ourselves. True, we can not keep our
cake and eat it too, but what is cake
good for but to eat and what is money
good for but to use?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

AFTER using the kerosene emulsion
on plants they should be syringed with
water; then no harm will ensue. This
treatment will destroy scale insects. 1t
is necessary to look the plants over
afterward and brush away all the dead
insects and make the plants quite clean.
The green lice on honeysuckles can be
destroyed by Swinging the plants with
soap-suds in which there is a little adj
dition of tobacco-water. After using
this liquid wash the plants well by
Swinging with clean water. If the lice
should reappear, repeat the operation
and afterward be on the lookout for
them and destroy them in the same
manner whenever necessary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

Isn't it worth twenty-five cents to
have severe pain relieved quickly?
" Certainly" you say" what will do
it?" Why, Neurotic Oil will every
time. Either internal or external aches.
1t is famous in rheumatism, neuralgia
and toothache. Tryit. Keepit on hand.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

DYSPEPSIA makes the lives of many
people miserable and often leads to self
destruction. We know of no remedy
for dyspepsia more successful than
Hoods Sarsaparila. 1t acts gently,
yet surely and efficiently, tones the
stomach and other organs, removes the
faint feeling, creates good appetite,
cures headache and refreshes the bur-
dened mind Give Hoods Sarsaparilla
a fair trial. 1t will do you good.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

A WESTERN newspaper says that the
latest sensation is st. Louis horse that
chews tobacco; but the greatest sensa-
ton is Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup.
SALVATION OIL is the greatest pain
destroyer of the age. 1t speedily ami
hilates pain, whether from a cut, bruise
scald, burn, frost-bite or from a wound
of any other kind. Price only twenty
five cents.
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STOCK FARM FOR SALE.

200 acres situated one-half mile from Toronto,
Il 81 Woodson county, Kansas. The soil is first
class limestone upland, and produces we'll Two
large houses with barns, sheds, cribs corralls feed
lots, ETC. etc. Two young bearing orchards OF all
kinds of fruit. Two wells and two cisterns. Greek
runs through the place; with never falling water;
also plenty of young timber, This is a No. horse
or mule ranch and is in complete running order.
Toronto thriving town with schools and churches
and two railroads Might trade in part for unen-
numbered city town property. Price $4,000, For
diagram and further description address the owner
+. BONTECOU,
Toronto. Woodson County, Kansas
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Ayers Cherry PeCtoral,
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Ba6ylan3, full of pictures and songs and stories,
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A MISUNDERSTANDING,
DR.. Mark R. WOOdbury'S Dyspepsia Killers
Attention, Builders

The subscribers authorized to, and will receive
up to the first day of January next sealed proposals
for building and furnishing all material for school.
house to he located ON the school grounds of School
District No. 5, Marshield Village. said school
house will consist of main building 26S3s feet and
ell u N25 feet and built according to the " Preston
plan" adopted by said school district, The desks
and all school furniture viii he required be pur-
chased of specified pattern and make. The founda-
tion will be ready August LIST, AID lsss and the
building must he completed November LIST follow
ing. Plan and full specifications will he furnished
on application. r. :; PlTklN, } R,,,l5;.o
=, w. COLE, hMuurg
L. " SPENCER,) 'o"""'ee'
Marshheld, Dec. 7, 1887.
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WANTED.

Cash will be paid for early numbers of Vermont
Session Laws and Walton's and other Vermont Regis
ters. Address u. w. BALDWIN. Barton. VT
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THOSE who would be kept from harm
should keep out of harms way.
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TO PRESERVE THE SOFTNESS OF FLANNEL GAR
MENTS FOLLOW CAREFULLY THESE
DIRECTIONS FOR WASHING.

Dissolve thoroughly in boiling SOAP shaved
Add sufficient wash the hannes by
Don't rub soap the hannel but knead them well in the
solution.
Don't them in plain fresh supply of the solution
warm, and well bued, for the purpose.
Don't wiring tightly with the hands, clohes-wrng The e
from you get these garments the softer they will be-
Hang them out Immediately the weather will permit if not, dry
before the fire left the flannel will certainly shrink
Never wash flannel in hot to bear your hand in
Never rinse them in cold
Always the best experience proved
this.
A WORD OF WARNING.
There white each represented be good The Ivory :"
they ARE NOT but like all cote lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities
of the genuine Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting
Copyrg proc Gamble
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I ITERATION NOTICE.-This is to certify
~ that have this day given my son, Ernest A.
Answorth, his time during the remainder of his
minority and that shall claim none of his earnings
pay any debts of his contracting after this date
JEFFERSON AINSWORTH.
WfReSs-ORVILL AINsWORTH.
Woodbury., VT December 3, 1857.
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NOTICE..

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
First National Bank of Montpelier VT, for the cleo
ton of Directors and the transaction of any other
proper business will he held at the oce of the Bank
on Tuesday, January TO- lSSS at two o'clock T.. NJ.
Il. l.. EATON, Cashier.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-23
Pro Bono publico,

st. Joseph's great interstate exposition
opens Monday, September 18th instant, and
VIII continue six days, aud for this occasion
the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway
Est. Joseph & Iowa Railroad Co, lesseel
Rock Island Route" viii sell excursion
tickets daily from all stations on its line for
one fare for the round trip, to which will be
added 80 cents for an admission ticket. Sale
will commence Sunday, Sept. 18th to nth,
inclusive, and tickets will be good for return
passage until Sunday, September 18th in
elusive.
Same rates will apply from ell stations in
Kansas only, for the Kansas stare fair. which
opens at Topeka, Monday, September 10th,
also continuing six days. Tickets will be on
sale SUI day, September 18th to oath inclusive,
good for return passage until Sunday, Sep
TENDER 18th inclusive.
For each of these fairs unprecedented at
fractions will be open TO the public So one
and all should take advantage of the greatly
reduced rates of fair and help swell the crowd
which is sure to be in attendance. For par
ticulars see advertising matter which has
been distributed throughout the country.
JOHN SEBASTIAN,
Z, A RUTHERFORD, G. T. & p A,
Ilcket Agent, Wichita Topeka
2t
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-23
WICHITA, Kas., Sept. 20 1851.

WICHITA, kas., Sept. 20. 1887.
To the Officers and Members of the GARFIELD Po.,
Wichita, Kas.:
Understanding it is the intention of your
post to decide this evening upon the route 10
the National Enc ampment to be held in st.
Louis, and being unable to get any informa-
ton TO you through the committee who have
represented to you only one line for reasons
purely personal to themselves we have adj
opted this means of placing our line before
you. The Frisco offers as low rates as any
other and has arranged to place special ac-
commodations for the benefit Of the Garfield
Post, consisting OF elegant reclining chair
cars-palace Pullman sleepers and handsome
day coaches-on their morning train leaving
Wichita Sunday, Sept. 18th, at 9:25 a. m.
and al! following trains. The 'Frisco line is
exclusively st. Louis line and at the same
rates OF fare and unsurpassed acconmoda-
tons 1t is legitimately entitled to your CON
sideration.
hope, therefore, the post viii carefully
view these matters in an impartial manner
and see that justice is accorded all lines. Our
rates from Wichita to st. Louis and return
Will be eleven dollars and ninety-fve cents
ana no passes given to secure business.
ICE 5ieRets VIII be on sale September Gath to
Sotn inclusive, good returning until October
'tn, subject to extension to October 3Ist.
In conclusion l wish to inform your honor
able body that the St. Louis & San Fran
CISCO railroad company is exclusively
ichlta institution, and is not engaged in
building up other cities at the expense of
your own. Permit me further to remind YOU
mat In no instance have we ever before been
10 situated that we could ask you for recop
milton and fair share of your business.
which below you are now willing to &C
ord u.s. Am very respectfully yours,
w. G. MELVILLE.
Gen1 Western Pass. Ag't.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-23
NIGHT SCHOOL.
At the Southwestern Business College Corne
DoaglAs and Topeka AYES.

a six months term OF evening sessions will
begin at the Southwestern Business College
on Monday evening, October 3rd. The fol.
lowing branches viii be thoroughly taught.
single and double EMERY book keeping in ali
their forms, business writing, type-writing,
arithmetic, reading, spelling and shorthand.
Each student will be instructed privately at
his desk, thus avoiding all embarrassment
This will be rare opportunity for young
men and women who are DESTROYS of extend
ing their knowledge, and being otherwise en-
gagged are unable to attend our day sessions
We can point TO large number Of ladies
and gentlemen who attended our night ses-
slons last year and in less than six months
gained such a knowledge Of busine ss that
they were enabled to resign their laborious
and penurious positions and accept easier and
more remunerative ones. No young person
with any ambition whatever, fs willing to
hold the same situation all his life with no
chance for advancement. This night school
will be the very medium through which he
can elevate himself and prepare for some
thing financially better.
Tnltion-payable in advance-full term OF
six months, when all is paid on entering, S25:
per month in advance, Sc. Tuition will be
the same regardless Of the number of
branches pursued. The school will be in
session from 7:30 to $50, on Monday, Tues
day. Thursday and Friday evenings Of each
week
For further information call on or address
961m Ell. FRIrCu. Prin
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-23

Excursion tickets will be sold to the fol-
lowing points at the union ticket ofics, 122
n. Main st and union depot:
Kansas City fair, sold Sept. % to Oct. /,
at s6.65, which includes admission TO the
fair.
st. Louis Exposition, ST.. 10 for the round
trip, dates OF sale: Sept. 10, %, 90. and Oct
10, Is, II, 20.
Denver and return, for the Grand Lodge
Odd Fellows meeting. tickets on sale 18th
Is, 10Th and Goth of September, limited until
October 81; SIS s. for the round trip
Kansas State Fair, Topeka, Kan, So Is
tickets on sale Sept. II to "a inclusive.
Harvey County Fair, ct Newton Kan,
tickets on sale Sept. rs to so inclusive; fare,
81. 10 for round trip. W. d MURDOCH
l04f Agt. Santa Fe and Frisco Lines.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-23
WEST SIDE NATIONAL BANK.
rtlacate OF Authority to Commence Banking.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
)TFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY. !
WASHINGTON. july 10. 1887

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY,
WASHINGTON, July 10, 1887.
WHERKAs, By satisfactory evidence pre-
sented to the undersigned, it has been made
to appear that 1.-THE WEST SIDE NATION
AL BANK Of WICHITA in the City of
Wichita, in the county OF Sedgwick and
state Of Kansas, has complied with all the
provisions Of the statutes OF the United
States, required to be complied with before
an association shall be authorized 10 com
mence the business Of banking.
Now, therefore, i, William L. Trenholm,
comptroller of the currency, do hereby Ger
tify that the West Side National Bank of
Wichita, in the City OF Wichita, in the coun-
ty OF Sedgwick and state OF Kansas, is
authorized to commence the business Of
banking as provided in section fifty lone hun
dred and sixty nine of the revised statutes CT
the United States
In testimony whereof, witness my hand
and seal Of Office this 10Th day Of July, 1887
(Seall W. l. TRENHOLM,
Comptroller OF he Currency
No. 3,7S6. d57-53t